ChromeShark's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Bloons]

Fantastic

Started off thinking it was a simple but fun game. An hour of dart throwing later and I think you may have created my favourite game of the year so far. Painfully addictive, but never too hard. Brilliantly original, and worked almost perfectly. I noticed one bug in that the darts sometimes flew right through the bouncy blocks. Otherwise it ran very smoothly. Looks nice, the graphics are crisp and colourful. Really like it, 10/10.

Warnockworld responds:

Thanks ChromeShark, when I read your review I went all glowy and smiley.

As for that bug - yes, its an annoying one, sorry!

[Tron Pong]

Good pong

I'm pretty sick of Pong games on Newgrounds, but this one did come across as better made than most. Liked the graphics, had a nice feel to it. I still knock some credit off for unoriginality though, a few more extra features to give it a uniqueness would help a lot.

A more serious problem with this is how there's no reset delay when the ball slips past. I'd often lose a point when my paddle was at the side of the screen, then lose another 1 or 2 because I couldn't get back to the middle fast enough. If the ball just flashed for a couple of seconds before moving off, that would be good.

Kinda liked it, 7/10.

Inisig responds:

lol there is 1 little extra in there if you can find it :P if you want to find it then id say look on the instructions page, and yea i know ivbe been told several times about the ball resetting problem, i am sorry for that, ill look into it more ok.
thanx for the comment :-)

[Doodle Man The Game]

Looks good, plays mediocre

Thought it'd be great when I first opened it, great graphics you've got there. Using a tablet I presume? I really gotta get one of them, this looks much better than most games at Newgrounds.

The game was pretty basic, but quite fun. My main problem with it was how the character would zap back to the start as soon as he got hit. The collision detection wasn't perfect, so it became very annoying after a while. A HP bar would work much better I think. Or at least have some kind of effect when he dies, not just a position reset.

If you make a sequel to this, I think you should add something a bit more original to it too. This walk and jump style platformer has been done to death, people will like the game much more of it offers something new.

I thought it was a pretty good effort though, I'm guessing you're pretty new to making games, if so this is a promising start.

WAR-HEART responds:

thanks
and
yep this is my first game
i gave it a try

[Coincidence or pure lie?]

Real interesting

This got blammed first time round? No way! I told loads of people about the last one, it was cool. Hope this one makes it, gave you 5 to help.

Something you could add: if you type 'bush hid the facts' in a notepad file in windows, save it, then reopen the file, it screws up. Weird.

Maybe this would score better if you made it like a quiz (the player had to guess if each fact is coincidence or lie).

Good luck ; )

HoYack responds:

Yeah, that is weird...
And I was thinking about quiz but I decided to keep it how it is. But I will make improvement in graphics.

[Amoeba Amoeba]

Really good beat em up

Beat em ups are hard games to make in Flash, you did a nice job of it! The thing that impressed me most was the perfect difficulty level, most of my matches were so close they went into a round 3. I guess it's your good AI to thank for that.

Graphically I thought it was great, both the characters the and detailed backgrounds. It was funny too, some very original characters and lots of well conceived attacks.

Really good game, hope to see a sequel with more characters. 10/10

gavD responds:

Thanks ChromeShark!

The main problem we had with adding content was that the FLA developed a memory leak about 6 months ago, meaning it would leak memory then garbage collection frantically. This means we can't add stuff to this. If I could find what was causing it, we could proceed with more content but unfortunately there's a problem somewhere in Macromedia's flash dev environment that only affects this FLA!

[Excuse Machine v1.0]

Funny

This is really funny, I could play for ages.

Not sure if it'll score well cause the graphics and coding are both pretty basic. But the concept is great, and you chose good words - I didn't get a single excuse that didnt make me at least smile.

Nice one, 8/10

Glutton responds:

thanks for the review...yeah the graphics were kinda different when it went to NG. the words were kinda hard to read to as they got squashed up a little...

[Ginger Ball Shooter]

Cool idea, but...

I like the idea, it's so sick that it could have worked. But I think it needs to be more violent, the cocks n balls really need to splat when they're shot. The sound effects could be much better too.

The game itself isn't varied enough. Point n shoots are so unoiriginal that they need something special to stand out, the concept here helped, but it still needs something more.

I wouldn't minds seeing a version 2, I reckon you could pull this off. Keep at it.

CloseToGhost responds:

Thanks!
I really hate coding, this was just a balloon shooting template I altered.
If I had the know-how, there would be different balls and dicks, different impacts, different splats and sounds.
The point system would be better..
With a scoreboard and awards..
But I don't know how.. so I just did what I could with the template.
:)

[IS_Tetris]

Good tetris remake

A perfectly good Tetris remake. Crisp clean graphics, smooth gameplay, simple controls. The choice of background and music was a nice touch.

But this loses points for unoriginality. Surprised you couldn't find a decent Tetris on Newgrounds because I've definelty played a few here. Some say that making a good game is 90% ideas and 10% everything else, which wouldn't bode well for this.

As the maker of Gravoor you've got nothing to prove so it's cool if you want to make stuff like this. But I like to see fresh ideas myself.

Chris responds:

I know this is unoriginal. i mean hell its tetris, its been on every gaming system ever made =P

I have a few better ideas i'm working on, more original. keep an eye out

[Mouse fx 2]

Funky

Pretty impressive stuff, and fun to play about with. The graphics were great and went perfectly with the music.

Few suggestions:

-Just a basic counter in the bottom to show which effect you're on. I think I counted 40 effects here, it could just say 21/40 or whatever effect you're on.

-Maybe a chocie of background would be good here and add replay value. I mean if you had 25 backgrounds that's 1000 different combinations, which'd keep people busy for ages!

-To save the need for keyboard, maybe clicking the mouse could move to the next effect?

-Colour change seemed to be random, I like that, but maybe there's could also be a a button to instantly change the colour.

Good Flash though, 8/10.

psychodad responds:

tnx for the suggestions!

[Yay Snake Game ^^]

Promising

Everybody has to start somewhere, technically this wasn't bad at all. Try a more original idea with some more exciting graphics and you could do alright here at NG.

NSysc responds:

well, thanks ^^ that was veary nice ^^